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  • Economix Blog: Casey B. Mulligan: Will the I.R.S. Be Busy Next Year?


    NYT > Theater — Authority Authority: 865
    The outcome of the presidential election might help determine how many audits the Internal Revenue Service conducts and whether theyre aimed more at individuals or corporations, if historical patterns hold, an economist writes.
    14 hours ago

  • Coughing and Sneezing Kids — linking to financial contagion and


    Mostly Economics — Authority Authority: 117
    A superb post from Matt Kahn of UCLA. It is insights like these which makes economics such an interesting subject to teach. He says he does not understand why Coughing and Sneezing Kids are sent to school? My son has been sick the last couple of days and I’m in deep thought about the social costs [...]
    16 hours ago

  • How to Avoid Reinventing the Wheel on Tax Reform, Part 2


    Economix — Authority Authority: 709
    Its hard to overhaul the tax code without an outline upfront of what is intended, which can be used to weigh the impacts of proposed changes against one another, an economist writes.
    1 day ago

  • Francis Fukuyama on the Financial Crisis – a waster opportunity to reform..


    Mostly Economics — Authority Authority: 117
    People need to keep following thebrowser.com for some superb interviews. It should be in the favorites list or just subscribe to their email list. The best part about these interviews is you get to know about new books (as each person is asked to pick up five books) and then the broad research/thought process of the ...
    1 day ago

  • The Economist’s Chinese competition


    top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority Authority: 164
    http://www.guardian.co.uk The Economist’s Chinese competition The Economist has introduced a weekly section devoted to the coverage of China. In a leader announcing the move, the magazine said it is the first time since 1942 – when the US section was introduced – that it is dedicating an entire ...
    2 days ago

  • The Economists Chinese competition


    Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 118
    The Economist has introduced a weekly section devoted to the coverage of China. In a leader announcing the move , the magazine said it is the first time since 1942 - when the US section was introduced - that it is dedicating an entire section to a single country. It continued: "The principal reason is that ...
    2 days ago

  • Traffic Jam Economics


    Economix — Authority Authority: 709
    Plans to improve more roads or to bring more taxis into service generally make traffic worse, an economist writes.
    2 days ago

  • Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: Traffic Jam Economics


    NYT > Theater — Authority Authority: 865
    Plans to improve more roads or to bring more taxis into service generally make traffic worse, an economist writes.
    2 days ago

  • Was Riksbank monetary policy in 1930s innovative?


    Mostly Economics — Authority Authority: 117
    Riksbank is seen as the first bank to start price level targeting during great depression. This was a precursor to inflation targeting  and is often cited as an example for central banks taking up price level targeting. This along with several other novel initiatives makes it an innovative central bank. This paper ...
    2 days ago

  • New Zealand service sector struggling to expand


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 533
    Wellington, Jan 30 (IANS) New Zealand’s service sector is struggling and will continue to struggle in the near future, an industry leader said Monday on the release of the latest Performance of Services Index (PSI).The BNZ-Business New Zealand PSI figure for December was just 50.6, down from 56.2 in November and ...
    2 days ago

  • What’s next for The New York Times?


    Catarina's World — Authority Authority: 98
    Cant help wondering what the future has in store for newspapers? Its telling that even the New York Times are slashing employee benefits and laying off staff. Watch a very interesting interview with investigative journalist Russ Baker putting whats happening at the paper into a broader context:  ...
    3 days ago

  • The tricky business of measuring growth


    Tim Harford — Authority Authority: 491
    Two experts offer a new approach to weighing economic strength, posing many good questions about the practice. The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity,” Bill Gates once opined, and he was right: many problems in development cannot be solved simply by wanting solutions badly ...
    4 days ago

  • Expert who foresaw 08 crash warns of tough decade


    Home & living - home-living.marc8.com — Authority Authority: 120
    Economist Nouriel Roubini, nicknamed "Dr. Doom" for his gloomy predictions ahead of the 2008 financial meltdown, says a conflict with Iran could cause a global recession. read more
    4 days ago

  • Economix Blog: Do Big-Time Sports Mean Big-Time Support for Universities?


    NYT > Theater — Authority Authority: 865
    Even if most major athletic programs make little if any net revenue, their benefit to universities bottom lines can be quantified in many ways, an economist writes.
    5 days ago

  • Do Big-Time Sports Mean Big-Time Support for Universities?


    Economix — Authority Authority: 709
    Even if most major athletic programs make little if any net revenue, their benefit to universities bottom lines can be quantified in many ways, an economist writes.
    5 days ago

  • TV has to get on the bus


    Eat the Babies - a web-comic updating Tuesdays and Fridays — Authority Authority: 103
    I ride my bike around the city, mostly. It’s my preferred way to travel because it is usually faster and, more importantly, I can be completely on my own schedule. Also, I never have to figure out what mode is the best to get me to some place I don’t go very often. So that’s all good. But you do get sweaty. ...
    5 days ago

  • Newt Gingrich, Gold and Property Rights


    Economix — Authority Authority: 709
    There is a legitimate critique to be made of the monetary and banking system, but talk of returning to the gold standard, rather than addressing the mortgage crisis, is not a serious approach, an economist writes.
    6 days ago

  • Are markets now overestimating risks in Europe?


    Mostly Economics — Authority Authority: 117
    Paul De Grauwe and Yuemei Ji have written a paper on the same. They summarise it here. They say first markets underestimated the risks between 2001-08  and are now overdoing things. In a new paper (De Grauwe and Ji 2012) we argue that financial markets have not suddenly found the truth. Since the start of the ...
    1 week ago

  • `European growth model works but needs modifications’


    Thaindian News — Authority Authority: 533
    Brussels, Jan 25 (IANS) The European growth model based on trade and finance has brought about prosperity but also needs modifications, a World Bank official said Tuesday.“Europe has to make adjustments to its economic model, not abandon it,” said Philippe Le Houerou, the World Bank’s vice president for Europe ...
    1 week ago

  • How central banks are ruled by men from MIT…


    Mostly Economics — Authority Authority: 117
    I wish there were more women central bankers and trained at MIT..,the title of the post would have been less biased.. In case people have not read this article, it is a must read. Our economic lives are increasingly in the hands of econs trained at MIT: As financial turmoil in Europe threatened to overwhelm the ...
    1 week ago

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